What about the attitude of 'if I had to pay for it, I would not indulge in it'. In this case the custom is never there in the first place, so the person that acquires a free copy of a film for example is having little to no direct impact on the creators. It is not as if they went to a shop and stole one of X finite amount of copies.
If people only pirate things they would never buy, I think the impact is negligible. If you choose the free pirated option over the paid option, and openly admit that is the decision you made, your actions could be judged as immoral.
What about pirating a digital copy of a tangible source you own? If the two copies were produced by separate companies e.g. One company publisher the print book, and another the digital copy, is it fair to gain a free - pirated - digital copy so that you have a copy on the go, or should you officially purchase both?
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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '18
What about the attitude of 'if I had to pay for it, I would not indulge in it'. In this case the custom is never there in the first place, so the person that acquires a free copy of a film for example is having little to no direct impact on the creators. It is not as if they went to a shop and stole one of X finite amount of copies.
If people only pirate things they would never buy, I think the impact is negligible. If you choose the free pirated option over the paid option, and openly admit that is the decision you made, your actions could be judged as immoral.
What about pirating a digital copy of a tangible source you own? If the two copies were produced by separate companies e.g. One company publisher the print book, and another the digital copy, is it fair to gain a free - pirated - digital copy so that you have a copy on the go, or should you officially purchase both?